Accident investigation and RIDDOR

What the course covers

1. Reporting incidents

   The types of incident, why reporting everything matters, and exactly what RIDDOR requires to be reported, by whom and when.

   • Types of incident and why report them
   • What RIDDOR requires you to report
   • Who reports, how and when

2. Responding and preparing to investigate

   What to do in the first minutes and hours, how to decide the level of investigation, and how to collect evidence.

   • The first minutes and hours
   • Deciding the level of investigation
   • Gathering evidence

3. Finding the causes

   Interviewing witnesses well, understanding immediate, underlying and root causes, and using simple analysis tools.

   • Interviewing witnesses
   • Immediate, underlying and root causes
   • Tools for analysing causes

4. Learning and preventing

   Turning findings into actions that work, sharing lessons, using incident data, and a complete worked example.

   • Actions that prevent a repeat
   • Sharing lessons and spotting trends
   • Worked example: a near miss at the loading bay

Assessment and certificate

• A short quiz after each unit, with the reason for every answer.
• A final assessment of 20 questions; the pass mark is 70%.
• Pass it on a paid plan for a certificate of completion with a QR code anyone can check.

This is online awareness training, not an accredited qualification. It doesn't on its own show someone is competent for a task. This course teaches the method. Serious or complex incidents may need a more experienced or specialist investigator.